This is blatant gaslighting. You don’t get to claim you’re lowering housing costs while expanding the very regulatory and cost burdens helping drive those costs. Facts: NAHB estimates regulation accounts for roughly 24% of the cost of a single-family home. Massachusetts median single-family home price topped $610,000 in 2024, among the highest in the nation. Boston Indicators has documented accelerating domestic outmigration, especially among 25–44 year olds, while a 2024 Massachusetts outmigration study found 68% of those leaving were prime working-age residents. Yet we’re told more bureaucracy and political branding will ‘make it easier to build’? That’s the fallacy. Permitting friction, code creep, infrastructure bottlenecks, taxes, and compliance costs are part of the problem — not the cure. And yes, policies like this are a major reason I’m moving my company and employees out of state, like many others. Productive people and employers are voting with their feet. You don’t lower housing costs by making construction more expensive. You don’t solve a supply crisis by burdening supply. And you don’t get credit for ‘cutting friction’ when government created much of the friction in the first place. The arsonist doesn’t get applause for arriving with a hose. #Massachusetts #MassWinsAct #HousingCrisis #Construction #SmallBusiness #PermittingReform #RegulatoryBurden #Taxachusetts #OutMigration #HousingAffordability #BeaconHill #BuildMoreRegulateLess #MApolitics @massgop @agenturban @MassFiscal @MA_vs_Healey @LocalPoliticsis